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WO2015193445A1
WO2015193445A1 PCT/EP2015/063732 EP2015063732W WO2015193445A1 WO 2015193445 A1 WO2015193445 A1 WO 2015193445A1 EP 2015063732 W EP2015063732 W EP 2015063732W WO 2015193445 A1 WO2015193445 A1 WO 2015193445A1
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Christophe Kazmierski
François LELARGE
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Commissariat À L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives (Cea)
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B10/00—Transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio-waves, e.g. infrared, visible or ultraviolet light, or employing corpuscular radiation, e.g. quantum communication
    • H04B10/50—Transmitters
    • H04B10/501—Structural aspects
    • H04B10/506—Multiwavelength transmitters
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S5/00—Semiconductor lasers
    • H01S5/005—Optical components external to the laser cavity, specially adapted therefor, e.g. for homogenisation or merging of the beams or for manipulating laser pulses, e.g. pulse shaping
    • H01S5/0085—Optical components external to the laser cavity, specially adapted therefor, e.g. for homogenisation or merging of the beams or for manipulating laser pulses, e.g. pulse shaping for modulating the output, i.e. the laser beam is modulated outside the laser cavity
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S5/00—Semiconductor lasers
    • H01S5/06—Arrangements for controlling the laser output parameters, e.g. by operating on the active medium
    • H01S5/065—Mode locking; Mode suppression; Mode selection ; Self pulsating
    • H01S5/0657—Mode locking, i.e. generation of pulses at a frequency corresponding to a roundtrip in the cavity
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S5/00—Semiconductor lasers
    • H01S5/40—Arrangement of two or more semiconductor lasers, not provided for in groups H01S5/02 - H01S5/30
    • H01S5/4012—Beam combining, e.g. by the use of fibres, gratings, polarisers, prisms

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  • the present invention generally relates to the field of optical communication networks, in particular to optical signal transmitters for optical communication networks. More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to optical devices for generating a combined multi-wavelength optical signal adapted for being used in a wavelength division multiplexing optical network.
  • optical signals are transmitted along optical links (typically, optical fibers) between nodes of the network.
  • optical links typically, optical fibers
  • each optical signal results from the digital modulation of the amplitude and/or phase of the light emitted by a light source (such as a laser) included in a transmitter of a node, at a certain wavelength, and it propagates along an optical fiber.
  • a light source such as a laser
  • WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing
  • a coupler typically combines all the optical signals generated from the light sources into one optical fiber.
  • an optical device has been proposed that generates, from one light source, a pair of two optical signals spaced by a given frequency, with one or two of them holding modulation data. The two separate signals propagate over fiber without fading. A high frequency carrier is produced in a receiver photo-detector, after the separation of the two signals and their mixing with modulation data.
  • such an optical device is multiplied by the number of required pairs of light carriers.
  • optical devices used in WDM systems include costly and bulky optical and electronic components. Moreover, due to the presence of a high-power local oscillator which is electrically supplied, such optical devices involve high power consumption.
  • optical comb i.e. an optical signal having a spectrum formed of a plurality of wavelengths with constant frequency spacing
  • Such an optical comb can then be used in a WDM network to provide each of the WDM light carriers.
  • At least two wavelength combs with a same frequency spacing are interleaved to form wavelength pairs separated by a given frequency interval, in general different from the comb frequency spacing.
  • an optical device using an amplified loop modulation of a Mach-Zender modulator allowing the generation of such a WDM comb is known.
  • such optical devices all include a high-power local oscillator which is electrically supplied.
  • an object of this invention is to provide an optical device for generating a combined multi-wavelength optical signal having a reduced size, power consumption and cost.
  • the present invention provides an optical device for generating a combined multi-wavelength optical signal, the optical device comprising:
  • each mode-locked laser component being able to generate an optical comb having a spectrum formed of a plurality of wavelengths with constant frequency spacing, the spectra of the generated optical combs being shifted, the frequency spacing values of said spectra being equal,
  • optical combiner for superimposing the generated optical combs, said optical combiner being connected to an output of each of the mode-locked laser components, said optical combiner having an output adapted to provide the combined multi-wavelength optical signal formed of the superimposition of the generated optical combs.
  • the optical device may include additional characteristics considered separately or combined, and notably:
  • each mode-locked laser component is a quantum dot mode-locked laser diode ;
  • the optical device further comprises at least an optical modulator device for modulating at least one of the generated optical combs with base-band data ;
  • the optical modulator device comprises at least one optical intensity modulator connected between an output of one of the mode-locked laser components and the optical combiner, said optical modulator being adapted for modulating the optical comb generated by said mode-locked laser component with said base-band data ;
  • the optical modulator device is arranged within at least one of the mode-locked laser components and are adapted for directly modulating the laser of said mode-locked laser component with said base-band data : • the optical device further comprises at least an optical amplifier device for amplifying the generated optical combs ;
  • the optical amplifier device comprises an optical amplifier adapted for amplifying each generated optical comb, said optical amplifier being located within the optical combiner ;
  • optical amplifier is a semiconductor optical amplifier
  • the optical device further comprises at least two semi-transparent mirrors, the semi-transparent mirrors being arranged to face a laser end mirror of the mode-locked laser components so as to form a Fabry-Perot laser optical cavity, each mode-locked laser component being arranged in said cavity ;
  • the semi-transparent mirrors are intra-chip mirrors formed of a waveguide gap, or photonic crystal or Bragg gratings ;
  • the optical device is formed of a single integrated circuit, preferably a photonic integrated circuit.
  • the present invention provides an optical communication network comprising at a transmitter side an optical device for generating a combined multi-wavelength optical signal as set forth above, and at a receiver side at least an optical filter for filtering optically the combined multi-wavelength optical signal.
  • the optical communication network may include the additional feature wherein the optical communication network is a wavelength division multiplexing communication network and the optical filter comprise a wavelength division demultiplexer, said wavelength division demultiplexer being adapted for providing distinct optical signals to a plurality of receivers via a plurality of optical channels, each optical channel carrying one of said optical signals, the wavelength division demultiplexer being further adapted for selecting sets of associated wavelengths among the spectrum of the combined multi-wavelength optical signal so that each optical signal has a spectrum formed of one of said sets of associated wavelengths, the wavelengths within a given selected set of associated wavelengths being shifted.
  • the optical communication network is a wavelength division multiplexing communication network and the optical filter comprise a wavelength division demultiplexer, said wavelength division demultiplexer being adapted for providing distinct optical signals to a plurality of receivers via a plurality of optical channels, each optical channel carrying one of said optical signals, the wavelength division demultiplexer being further adapted for selecting sets of associated wavelengths among the spectrum of the combined multi-wavelength optical signal so that each optical
  • this feature allows to transmit the combined multi- wavelength optical signal through a single optical fiber, thereby using effectively the broadband width of this optical fiber due to the absence of high frequency carrier modulation
  • the present invention provides a method for transmitting data to a plurality of receivers through an optical communication network, the optical communication network comprising at a transmitter side an optical device for generating a combined multi- wavelength optical signal and at a receiver side at least an optical filter for filtering optically the combined multi-wavelength optical signal, the optical device comprising:
  • each mode-locked laser component being able to generate an optical comb having a spectrum formed of a plurality of wavelengths with constant frequency spacing
  • optical combiner for superimposing the generated optical combs, said optical combiner being connected to an output of each of the mode-locked laser components, said optical combiner having an output adapted to provide the combined multi-wavelength optical signal
  • said method comprising:
  • the method for transmitting data allows providing simultaneously distinct optical signals to the receivers, each optical signal containing dual or more wavelengths able to produce a microwave high frequency carrier signal at the corresponding receiver.
  • FIG. 1 schematically and functionally illustrates an optical communication network comprising an optical device for generating a combined multi-wavelength optical signal according to the present invention
  • FIG. 2 schematically and functionally illustrates the optical device of Figure 1 according to a first embodiment of the present invention
  • the Figure 3 is a diagram illustrating the frequency spectrum of the combined multi-wavelength optical signal generated by the optical device of Figure 2, -
  • the Figure 4 schematically illustrates a flowchart of the method for transmitting data according to the invention, e.g. in the optical communication network of Figure 1 , to a plurality of receivers,
  • FIG. 5 schematically and functionally illustrates the optical device of Figure 1 according to a second embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating the frequency spectrum of the combined multi-wavelength optical signal generated by the optical device of Figure 5.
  • optical comb is intended to mean an optical signal having a spectrum formed of a plurality of wavelengths with constant frequency spacing.
  • Figure 1 shows an optical communication network 2 connected to a set of several receivers 3 via several optical channels 4.
  • the optical communication network 2 comprises at a transmitter side an optical device 5 for generating a combined multi-wavelength optical signal 6 and at a receiver side means 8 for filtering optically the combined multi-wavelength optical signal 6.
  • the filtering means 8 are connected to the optical device 5 thanks to an optical data link 9 comprising at least one optical fiber.
  • the optical communication network 2 is a wavelength division multiplexing communication network. But this is not limited to this kind of optical communication network.
  • the optical data link 9 comprises one single optical fiber.
  • Each receiver 3 is for example formed of a remote antenna unit adapted to convert an electrical signal into a radioelectric signal having a given frequency.
  • each remote antenna unit 3 is further adapted to emit wirelessly the radioelectric signal to a mobile terminal.
  • each receiver 3 comprises a wired optical network unit connected to a remote antenna unit.
  • the set of receivers 3 are connected to filtering means and connecting fibers which form a passive optical network connected to the other end of the optical device 5.
  • the optical device 5 comprises at least two mode-locked laser components 10 and means 12 for superimposing optical combs 1 3A, 13B generated by the mode-locked laser components 10.
  • the optical device 5 comprises two mode-locked laser components 10.
  • the optical device 5 further comprises means 14 for modulating at least one of the optical combs 13A, 13B with base-band data.
  • the optical device 5 further comprises means 16 for amplifying the generated optical combs 13A, 13B, and at least two semi-transparent mirrors 18.
  • the optical device 5 comprises two semi-transparent mirrors 18.
  • the optical device 5 is for example formed of a single integrated circuit.
  • the optical device 5 is formed of a single photonic integrated circuit, more precisely a monolithic photonic integrated circuit.
  • the optical device 5 is formed of a hybrid photonic integrated circuit.
  • the mode-locked laser components 10 are equipped with one laser end mirror 15 which is attached to one end of the mode-locked laser components 10.
  • Each mode-locked laser component 10 is able to generate an optical comb 13A, 1 3B having a spectrum formed of a plurality of wavelengths with constant frequency spacing.
  • the mode-locked laser components 10 are selected so that the optical spectra of the generated optical combs 13A, 13B are shifted and the frequency spacing values of said spectra are equal.
  • the optical spectra of the two generated optical combs 13A, 1 3B are shifted by a given frequency interval.
  • each mode-locked laser component 1 0 is a quantum dot mode-locked laser diode. This feature allows increasing the number of wavelengths with constant frequency spacing in the spectrum of the generated optical combs 13A, 13B, as well as increasing the reproducibility of frequency spacing between the wavelengths of said generated optical combs 1 3A, 13B.
  • each quantum dot mode-locked laser diode 10 includes an auto-pulsed laser adapted to auto-oscillate around a cavity frequency, the cavity frequency being equal to c/(2Ln g ) where c is the light speed, L is the cavity length and n g is an effective group refraction index of a laser waveguide.
  • a mode-locked semi-conductor laser whose cavity length L is substantially equal to 400 ⁇ will oscillate around a cavity frequency approximately equal to 100 GHz.
  • the superimposing means 12 are connected to an output of each of the mode-locked laser components 10, via waveguides 19.
  • the superimposing means 12 have an output 20 adapted to provide the combined multi-wavelength optical signal 6.
  • the combined multi- wavelength optical signal 6 is thus formed of the superimposition of the generated optical combs 1 3A, 13B.
  • the superimposing means 12 are formed of anoptical power combiner.
  • Figure 3 illustrates the optical spectrum of the combined multi- wavelength optical signal 6. More precisely, Figure 3 illustrates the amplitude versus frequency of the combined multi-wavelength optical signal 6.
  • the optical spectrum defines sets 21 A, 21 B, 21 C, 21 D of associated frequencies, and hence of associated wavelengths corresponding to said frequencies.
  • each set 21 A, 21 B, 21 C, 21 D comprises two associated frequencies.
  • the wavelengths corresponding to the frequencies within a given set 21 A, 21 B, 21 C, 21 D come from the optical combs 13A, 13B generated from distinct mode-locked laser components 1 0, and are shifted by the frequency interval.
  • the modulating means 14 are arranged within one of the mode-locked laser components 10 and are adapted for directly modulating the laser of said mode-locked laser component 10 with base-band data, under the control of an external electrical modulator. In an alternative embodiment not shown in the drawings, the modulating means 14 are arranged within each mode-locked laser component 10.
  • the base-band data is advantageously in the form of an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) data carried by a number of electrical frequency carriers. This notably allows carrying on a specific electrical carrier a final addressing of a signal to a mobile terminal.
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing
  • each receiver 3 comprises a wired optical network unit connected to a remote antenna unit
  • the base-band data is in the form of time slots allowing slot recognition at the corresponding optical network unit.
  • the amplifying means 16 comprise an optical amplifier 24.
  • the optical amplifier 24 is located within the superimposing means, namely within the optical combiner 12.
  • the amplifying means 1 6 are separated from the superimposing means 12 and are for example connected to the output 20 of the optical combiner 12 or are arranged externally, after the output of the optical device 5.
  • the optical amplifier 24 is adapted for amplifying each generated optical comb 13A, 13B.
  • the optical amplifier 24 is a semiconductor optical amplifier. This allows integrating the amplifier 24 into the photonic circuit and using it to increase optical output power and to compensate for optical propagation losses of the integrated photonic circuit.
  • the two semi-transparent mirrors 18 are arranged to face the laser end mirror 15 so as to form a Fabry-Perot laser optical cavity 26.
  • the mode-locked laser components 10 and the modulating means 14 are arranged in the cavity 26, and the superimposing means 12 and the amplifying means 16 are arranged out of the cavity 26. This allows to ease the further combination and amplification of the generated optical combs 13A, 13B.
  • each semi-transparent mirror 1 8 is an intra-chip mirror formed for example of a waveguide gap, or photonic crystal or Bragg gratings.
  • the filtering means 8 comprise a wavelength division demultiplexer 28.
  • the wavelength division demultiplexer 28 advantageously provides adequate addressing to the receivers 3.
  • the filtering means 8 comprise a power splitter associated to several optical fibers, each optical fiber forming one of the optical channels 4. In this case, the optical filtering means 8 are combined with the receivers 3.
  • the wavelength division demultiplexer 28 is adapted for providing distinct optical signals 30A, 30B, 30C, 30D to the receivers 3 via the optical channels 4, by filtering optically the combined multi-wavelength optical signal 6.
  • the wavelength division demultiplexer 28 is further adapted for selecting each set 21 A, 21 B, 21 C, 21 D of associated wavelengths among the spectrum of the combined multi-wavelength optical signal 6, so that each optical signal 30A, 30B, 30C, 30D has a spectrum formed of one of the sets 21 A, 21 B, 21 C, 21 D of associated wavelengths.
  • the method comprises a first step 40 during which the mode-locked laser components 10 generate at least two optical combs.
  • the two mode-locked laser components 10 generate the two optical combs 13A, 13B.
  • the modulating means 14 modulate at least one of the generated optical combs 13A, 1 3B with base-band data.
  • the modulating means 14 directly modulates one comb 13B among the generated optical combs 13A, 13B with Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing data.
  • the waveguides 19 transmit the generated optical combs 13A, 13B to the superimposing means 12.
  • the modulation step 42 is performed in parallel of the generation step 40.
  • the superimposing means 12 superimpose the generated optical combs 13A, 13B so that to form the combined multi- wavelength optical signal 6.
  • the superimposing means 12 provide the combined multi-wavelength optical signal 6 on their output 20.
  • the optical data link 9 transmits the combined multi-wavelength optical signal 6 to the filtering means 8.
  • the filtering means 8 filter optically the combined multi-wavelength optical signal 6. More precisely, in the exemplary embodiment of Figures 1 and 2, the wavelength division demultiplexer 28 selects the sets 21 A, 21 B, 21 C, 21 D of associated wavelengths among the optical spectrum of the combined multi-wavelength optical signal 6.
  • the filtering means 8 provide distinct optical signals 30A, 30B, 30C, 30D to the receivers 3 via the optical channels 4.
  • Each optical signal 30A, 30B, 30C, 30D has a spectrum formed of one of the sets 21 A, 21 B, 21 C, 21 D of associated wavelengths.
  • each receiver 3 produces a microwave high frequency electrical carrier, the frequency of which corresponds to the frequency interval between the received wavelengths of a given set 21 A, 21 B, 21 C, 21 D.
  • Each receiver 3 then up-converts the base-band data contained in the corresponding optical signal 30A, 30B, 30C, 30D.
  • Figure 5 illustrates a second embodiment of the optical device according to the invention wherein elements similar to the first embodiment described above are identified by identical reference numbers and thus are not described again.
  • the optical device 5 comprises three mode-locked laser components 10 and three semi-transparent mirrors 18. Each mode-locked laser component 10 is able to generate an optical comb 52A, 52B, 52C having a spectrum formed of a plurality of wavelengths with constant frequency spacing.
  • the mode-locked laser components 10 are selected so that the optical spectra of the generated optical combs 52A, 52B, 52C are shifted and the frequency spacing values of said spectra are equal.
  • the optical spectra of the three generated optical combs 52A, 52B, 52C are shifted by two equal frequency intervals.
  • the optical spectra of the three generated optical combs 52A, 52B, 52C are shifted by two different frequency intervals.
  • the modulating means 14 comprise at least one optical intensity modulator 54 connected between an output of one of the mode-locked laser components 10 and the superimposing means 12.
  • the or each modulator 54 is adapted for modulating the optical comb 52A, 52B, 52C generated by the corresponding mode-locked laser component 10 with base-band data, under the control of an external electrical modulator.
  • the modulating means 14 comprise two modulators 54, each modulator 54 being for example formed of an electro- absorption modulator.
  • the optical device 5 according to this second embodiment has an increased modulation bandwidth, due to the presence of the modulators 54.
  • the optical device 5 according to this second embodiment is particularly suitable for enhanced applications such as for example compatibility with a wired passive optical network comprising several optical network units connected to remote antenna units, or in case of a multi microwave carrier wireless communication.
  • Figure 6 illustrates the frequency spectrum of the combined multi- wavelength optical signal 6. More precisely, Figure 6 illustrates the amplitude versus frequency of the combined multi-wavelength optical signal 6.
  • the spectrum defines sets 56A, 56B, 56C, 56D of associated frequencies, and hence of associated wavelengths corresponding to said frequencies.
  • each set 56A, 56B, 56C, 56D comprises three associated frequencies.
  • the wavelength corresponding to the frequencies within a given set 56A, 56B, 56C, 56D come from the optical combs 52A, 52B, 52C generated from distinct mode-locked laser components 10, and are shifted by the two frequency intervals.
  • two of the three wavelengths hold the modulated optical signals coming from the generated optical combs 52B, 52C, while one of the wavelengths comes from the non-modulated optical comb 52A.
  • each optical signal 30A, 30B, 30C, 30D has a spectrum formed of one of the sets 56A, 56B, 56C, 56D of associated wavelengths, and each receiver 3 produces a microwave high frequency carrier and up-converts the base-band data contained in the corresponding optical signal 30A, 30B, 30C, 30D.
  • optical communication network comprising the optical device according to the invention offers several advantages:
  • the size of the optical device is reduced.
  • the size of the optical device according to the invention has a centimeter size, which corresponds to a reduction by a factor of about ten compared to the size of the Mach-Zender modulator of the prior art. This allows to further reduce the costs.
  • the optical device when used in a wavelength division multiplexing communication network connected to a set of remote antenna units, the optical device brings a major simplification of central office radio transmitters in terms of complexity, size and power consumption.

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L'invention concerne un dispositif optique (5) destiné à générer un signal optique multi-longueurs d'onde combiné (6), comprenant : au moins deux composants laser à modes bloqués (10), chaque composant laser (10) pouvant générer un peigne optique (13A, 13B) doté d'un spectre constitué d'une pluralité de longueurs d'onde avec espacement de fréquences constant, les spectres des peignes optiques générés (13A, 13B) étant décalés, les valeurs d'espacement de fréquences desdits spectres étant égales, au moins un combinateur optique (12) destiné à superposer les peignes optiques générés (13A, 13B), ledit combinateur (12) étant connecté à une sortie de chacun des composants laser à modes bloqués (10), le combinateur (12) ayant une sortie (20) conçue pour fournir le signal optique multi-longueurs d'onde combiné (6) formé par la superposition des peignes de signaux optiques (13A, 13B) générés.
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